The eclipse of Darwinism : anti-Darwinian evolution theories in the decades around 1900
In this pioneering study of the first major challenges to Darwinism, Bowler examines the completing theories of evolution, identifies their intellectual origins, and describes the process by which the modern concept of evolution emerged.
Print Book, English, ©1983
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©1983
History
xi, 291 pages ; 23 cm
9780801843914, 9780801829321, 080184391X, 0801829321
26547189
The eclipse and its implications : The crisis in Darwinism ; Conceptual issues ; Historical issues ; Religious and philosophical implications
The defense of Darwinism : The origins of Darwinism and anti-Darwinism ; The expansion of Darwinism ; Biometry and Neo-Darwinism
The decline of theistic evolutionism : Order and design ; Variety and design ; Later developments
Lamarckism : The origins of Lamarckism ; Lamarckism, 1890-1914 ; Postwar Lamarckism
Anti-Darwinism in France
The American school : Paleontology and Lamarckism ; Environmental Lamarckism
Orthogenesis : The origins of orthogenesis ; Orthogenesis and paleontology ; Reactions to orthogenesis
The mutation theory : Discontinuous evolution and Mendelism ; De Vries and mutations ; The revival of selectionism: conclusions